[B-Greek] Critical Text question
Carl Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Fri Jan 18 08:54:37 EST 2008
On Jan 17, 2008, at 7:12 PM, Karlton Douglas wrote:
> I recently came across a web site that mentioned the aleph and beta
> CT texts
> not only disagree with each other, they also have later corrections
> written
> upon them.
> http://www.dtl.org/versions/article/why_nkjv/part_two.htm
> My questions: are these two of the most reliable CT texts? and is the
> point that they disagree with each other valid? and do they indeed
> have
> later corrections written upon them?
I suppose that what is meant by "aleph and beta" indicated in the
first paragraph above are the Biblical MSS. Sinaiticus, usually
indicated by the Hebrew letter Aleph, and Vaticanus, usually indicated
by the Greek letter Beta. This is NOT the proper forum to discuss text-
critical issues, especially the matter of preference of the Critical
Text of the GNT vis-a-vis the Majority Text and/or the Textus
Receptus. I suggest only this much:
(1) I doubt that any of those who prefer the Critical Text would
imagine that Sinaiticus and Vaticanus are sufficient by themselves to
establish a critical text of the GNT; certainly NA27 and UBS4 were not
established on that basis.
(2) I think that you would do best to read one of the standard
introductions to NT Textual Criticism rather than accept at face value
what you're told by a proponent of TR, MT, or CT.
Resource lists worth checking are:
http://www.ntgateway.com/resource/textcrit.htm
http://faculty.bbc.edu/RDecker/nt_txtcr.htm
For books: http://tinyurl.com/2zwbaa
(or http://books.google.com/books?q=nt+textual+criticism&source=citation&ots=AfldTucZFj&sa=X&oi=print&ct=title&cad=bottom-3results&hl=en)
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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